Abigail Marie was born one year ago today, just an hour and four minutes past midnight.
We spent that first morning with her at the birth center, eating and dozing and nursing, and then packed her up in her carseat (so huge compared to our tiny girl!) and brought her home around noon. There are [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Abigail Day
Posted in family, friends, photos, tagged abigail, holidays, motherhood, photos on 02.23.2009 | 11 Comments »
songs and snatches
Posted in family, photos, tagged abigail, family, motherhood, photos on 02.18.2009 | 2 Comments »
Hi there.
I keep going on unintentional blogging hiatus these days, due to some unpleasant family matters – revolving around but not limited to my father’s health – which have taken up much of my energy and concentration of late. I would call it a “family emergency,” except how can something be an “emergency” when you’ve [...]
why we’re here
Posted in family, tagged abigail, family, internets, motherhood on 02.7.2009 | 7 Comments »
A friend of mine was mocking “mommy-blogging” today (and mommy-Twittering in particular), saying it was the last thing she cared about. I suppose the comment stung just a little. When I write about Abigail, here or in my other online journal – which, believe me, is often – are people rolling their eyes and scrolling [...]
just live now for a little while
Posted in family, tagged abigail, motherhood on 02.6.2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have a toddler now. Yep. I do. She is an enormous mobile chatterbox.
This whole week she’s been experimenting with her newfound power, taking more and more steps, walking all over the house – she just seems like a different person all of a sudden. So ridiculously huge and grown-up I can barely stand [...]
the beautiful voyage
Posted in family, tagged abigail, motherhood on 02.2.2009 | Leave a Comment »
I really try not to open the laptop when she’s with me, because I don’t want her early memories of me to consist of my face behind a screen and my fingers tapping away on keys. Despite being addicted to the internet since 1996, I would like my daughter to realize that my laptop and [...]
boundaries, you should get some
Posted in family, tagged abigail, motherhood on 02.1.2009 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday Abigail and I were waiting in line at Starbucks when a white woman in a red dress approached and said (to both of us) “Ni hao.”
I kind of stared at her blankly, and then something clicked in my head and I said, “Oh. Hi.”
She started to say something else in what I assume was [...]
